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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Buckle Up South Carolina 200

Darlington Raceway

May 12th, 2023

Race #9 of the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 147
- Extended to 158 laps
Miles Raced : 215.8
Time of Race : 02 Hours 02 minutes 42 seconds
Average Speed: 105.539 mph
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 37
Lead Changes: 10

Christian Eckes takes the checkered flag to win — Darlington, South Carolina - May 12th, 2023: Christian Eckes, driver of the #19 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Buckle Up South Carolina 200 at Darlington Raceway. Photo by Logan Riely | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Christian Eckes	4	2	1	1	1	4	1.6	+3	7	3	+4	7	33	100.0%	82	158	145.6	58
Stewart Friesen	6	8	7	2	2	14	6.4	+4	21	14	+7	19	2	100.0%	0	158	110.1	43
Tanner Gray	11	17	4	3	2	27	13.8	+8	22	32	-10	10	0	43.0%	0	158	85.7	34
William Byron	8	3	2	4	1	8	3.0	+4	12	3	+9	11	19	100.0%	7	158	120.4	0
Carson Hocevar	18	4	14	5	4	25	10.3	+13	53	22	+31	35	17	86.1%	0	158	100.0	44
Rajah Caruth	13	12	3	6	3	24	12.0	+7	37	21	+16	26	6	88.0%	0	158	91.4	31
Bubba Wallace	15	6	12	7	5	17	9.4	+8	42	29	+13	39	4	98.7%	0	158	97.8	0
Corey Heim	1	1	17	8	1	24	5.4	-7	27	43	-16	7	18	81.0%	66	158	121.5	47
Dean Thompson	25	13	16	9	9	25	17.0	+16	41	36	+5	16	0	46.2%	0	158	72.7	28
Kaden Honeycutt	24	21	18	10	9	26	20.4	+14	43	30	+13	2	0	6.3%	0	158	65.5	27
Nicholas Sanchez	3	7	11	11	3	16	9.0	-8	22	38	-16	22	0	96.8%	0	158	92.5	28
Matt Crafton	19	18	10	12	8	24	16.0	+7	38	21	+17	18	0	30.4%	0	158	74.8	25
Ross Chastain	16	15	20	13	9	25	15.1	+3	36	25	+11	19	0	60.1%	0	158	80.2	0
Grant Enfinger	2	9	5	14	2	18	7.3	-12	31	20	+11	30	1	96.8%	0	158	101.3	32
Tyler Ankrum	17	14	13	15	11	22	16.2	+2	23	32	-9	13	0	56.3%	0	158	69.0	22
Corey Lajoie	29	22	15	16	12	31	21.1	+13	43	42	+1	8	0	7.6%	0	158	57.3	0
Colby Howard	36	16	22	17	2	36	20.5	+19	42	32	+10	1	3	7.6%	0	158	63.3	20
Ben Rhodes	14	23	9	18	4	27	17.5	-4	32	38	-6	16	0	39.2%	0	158	62.5	19
Daniel Dye	20	24	21	19	8	27	22.1	+1	29	44	-15	0	0	2.5%	0	158	53.0	18
Hailie Deegan	26	26	23	20	1	32	24.8	+6	18	44	-26	2	0	4.4%	2	158	48.7	17
Taylor Gray	12	10	6	21	1	22	9.2	-9	17	21	-4	16	0	96.2%	1	158	82.8	17
Zane Smith	22	20	24	22	10	26	21.2	+0	20	25	-5	0	0	3.8%	0	158	51.3	15
Bret Holmes	34	28	26	23	22	35	28.9	+11	14	9	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	158	37.8	14
Timmy Hill	23	11	19	24	6	26	15.8	-1	36	38	-2	15	1	50.0%	0	157	71.2	15
Matt DiBenedetto	7	19	25	25	3	26	14.5	-18	32	51	-19	19	9	55.1%	0	157	71.6	20
Jake Garcia	5	5	8	26	4	26	7.9	-21	23	27	-4	21	0	94.9%	0	157	85.5	16
Ryan Vargas	32	29	27	27	26	34	28.8	+5	11	8	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	156	39.5	10
Johnny Sauter	27	30	28	28	26	33	29.4	-1	5	10	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	156	38.3	9
Kris Wright	35	31	29	29	29	36	32.0	+6	5	2	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	155	30.3	8
Lawless Alan	30	27	30	30	10	31	27.4	+0	18	17	+1	0	0	0.6%	0	126	39.7	7
Ty Majeski	9	33	31	31	9	33	29.9	-22	8	19	-11	1	0	0.6%	0	123	45.3	6
Chase Purdy	10	25	32	32	6	25	21.6	-22	10	17	-7	4	0	31.7%	0	100	55.2	6
Spencer Boyd	33	32	33	33	30	35	32.6	+0	6	8	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	78	26.5	4
Parker Kligerman	21	34	34	34	11	23	28.3	-13	16	6	+10	7	1	15.8%	0	48	50.2	0
Dawson Cram	31	35	35	35	28	35	34.5	-4	10	14	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	36	27.0	0
Brennan Poole	28	36	36	36	27	36	35.2	-8	5	13	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	20	29.7	1

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Race Fast Facts

Darlington Raceway
Buckle Up South Carolina 200
Race Winner: Christian Eckes
Age: 22
Team : No. 19 - Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet
Owner: Bill McAnally
Crew Chief: Charles Denike
Christian Eckes won the Buckle Up South Carolina 200, his third victory in 77 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his second victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Darlington Raceway.
Stewart Friesen (second) posted his third top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2023.
Tanner Gray (third) posted his first top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway.
Rajah Caruth (sixth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Zane Smith leads the point standings by 9 points over Ty Majeski.

Race Recap

Christian Eckes returns to winning ways in two overtimes at Darlington

May 12th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

After five weeks of frustration, Christian Eckes got the rebound he needed on Friday night at Darlington Raceway.

Leading a race-high 82 of 158 laps, Eckes scored a convincing two-overtime victory in the Buckle Up South Carolina 200, the ninth event on the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedule.

The win was Eckes' second of the season and third of his career. It followed a string of five races in which the driver of the No. 19 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet had finished 30^th three times and 15^th twice.

"I don't really feel that excited, because the truck was so good it drove itself," said Eckes, who won the race under caution after Grant Enfinger and Nick Sanchez tangled in the second overtime. "It's been a really, really rough couple of weeks.

"To come back and win shows the resilience of this team, and how we had to win it just shows the fight in this team… I was really determined. It's really, really fun to be here, man, and when you have a truck like this, you've just got to finish it out."

A late charge and an excellent restart in the first overtime vaulted Stewart Friesen into second place at the finish. Tanner Gray ran third, followed by full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver William Byron and Carson Hocevar.

The early stages of the race rapidly evolved into a contest between Eckes, Byron and pole winner Corey Heim, who led the first 26 laps before Eckes passed him for the Stage 1 victory and led 35 laps in Stage 2 before Byron passed him for the win with three laps left in the stage.

The first two stages ran caution-free to the breaks, but the complexion of the race changed markedly during the final stage and overtimes, which produced six cautions. Byron would have preferred longer green-flag runs.

"We needed a little bit longer runs, I think," said Byron, who was driving the No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports entry and seeking the 100^th victory for that organization. "Our truck was strong on longer runs—we just had too many medium to short runs, and it was hard to get track position there to advance forward…

"Hopefully, we learned some stuff for the (Goodyear 400) Cup race (on Sunday). We usually run really good here, so it's just a matter of trying to put it all together and learn some nuances with the race track, so hopefully we did that."

Heim led four times for 66 laps but took himself out of contention by failing to pit with the rest of the lead cars on Lap 116. He led the field to the restart on Lap 119 of a scheduled 147 but quickly fell back through the field.

Heim, however, pitted for fresh tires before the first overtime and recovered to finish eighth on the new rubber.

Reigning series champion Zane Smith, who was part of a three-car accident on Lap 101 and finished 22^nd, retained the series lead by nine points over Ty Majeski, who came home 35 laps down in 31^st after his crew changed the steering box in his ThorSport Racing Ford.